FDA Panel Rejects
Sock-Like Device
For Heart Failure

A Food and Drug Administration panel, in a 9-4 vote, said the agency should turn down a novel sock-like device that helps return enlarged hearts to their normal size in heart-failure patients.

While many of the panel's outside medical experts said the device appeared to be safe, they said they didn't believe the device's benefits outweighed risks of surgery. The panel and the FDA had other concerns, including whether it might make...